Friday, 1 August 2014

Take It, Make It Challenge: August!

We
loved all your entries last month featuring the Embossing Powder Resist technique, we were thrilled to see so many! We can't wait to see all the
projects featuring this
months theme!

What Can You Win?

For the August challenge, we are delighted to be sponsored by Sarah Hurley!

As well as loads of wonderful scrapbooking supplies, stash and digital downloads, Sarah also has an exclusive, very extensive range of wonderful stamps!

The
prize for the August challenge is this set of superb designs:

How fab are they? Love them!

PLUS:The Design Team will have a look at all your gorgeous work, and choose
their Top Three..... and the overall Winner will get published in Craft
Stamper magazine! Yes, the winning
entry will appear in the UK's number one stamping magazine!

AND: The Challenge winner will be offered a Guest Designer spot for an upcoming challenge!

So, to recap....Three sets of fabulous Sarah Hurley stamps, Publication AND a Guest DT spot? Sounds good to me!

Now for the Challenge details! We want to see how you lovely lot tackle a technique showcased in Craft
Stamper
magazine.

After all, that's the name of the challenge-Take a technique, and Make it your own!As we are now in holiday mode, we thought we would give you all a very broad theme for a change. We would like you to look through all your back issues of Craft Stamper from 2014 so far, and choose you favourite technique to share with us! So, we would love to see your creations using Any technique, from any 2014 issue of Craft Stamper!There are nearly 200 techniques to choose from, so good luck with the decision making!We HAVE to have the name of the technique, the name of the designer that demonstrated it in the magazine, and which months issue it came from somewhere in your blog post, so make sure you make a note of it! Otherwise, you could be creating something that has nothing to do with Craft Stamper at all, and we can't have that, can we!!!!

Along
with some of the regular Craft Stamper DT, the Take It , Make It DT
have chosen their favourite techniques from 2014 so far, and created some
fabulous eye candy!

If you click on the
artists name, it will take you to their blogs, where there may well be
loads
more pics of these gorgeous creations!

Dot AllanUsing: The stamping with household items technique by Birgit Koopsen, February issue.

Elizabeth RobinsonUsing: The stamping with embossing folders technique by Helen Chilton, March issue.

Winner to be announced in a
blog post here: 9am Friday August 29th 2014

All entries must feature a technique from a 2014 issue of Craft Stamper magazine.

All entries must state WHICH technique, WHICH issue and WHO wrote the original article in the magazine. Please see DT samples above for the information we require!

All entries must contain stamping.

No digi stamps please, unless
combined with actual stamping.

Projects can be of any theme, any colour.

Projects
can be a card, layout, journal page, art panel, tag, 3D item, anything
at all, as long as it follows all guidelines and features that months
technique.

The winning entry MUST be
posted to the magazine for photography before it can be published. Please
keep hold of your entry, we cannot publish in the magazine images sent via
computer.

Entry is via the linking
tool at the end of the post. We are very sorry that we can't accept email
entries to this challenge. Please provide deep links to your actual
project post, not just a link to your blog (to do this, click
on the title
of the relevant blog entry and copy/paste the URL in the relevant
box when uploading your entry). The DT will not go searching your entire blog for the project we want to
see!

No backlinking.

New work
only please, not work previously published anywhere else.

Entry is welcome from
anywhere in the world.

Multiple
entry is welcomed, as
long as each project has a separate blog post, is original, and
fulfils all the entry requirements. One project per post please!

Entries can be combined
with other blog challenges.

An obvious link back to the Craft Stamper Blog must be included in your blog post.

The September 2014 challenge will
be announced here on Friday September 5th 2014, at 9am.

PLEASE consider turning off word verification on your
blog. It is very difficult for the DT to comment on as many blogs as we would
like to when word verification slows us down!

Competition rules: Competitions/giveaways are
open to all (including overseas readers) except employees of Traplet
Publications Ltd and their families; regular contributors to any of Traplet
Publications’ magazines; employees of our printers; or anyone connected with
the prizes offered. By entering the competition you accept that your project
may be printed in the magazine. All entries must be received by midnight on the
specified closing date. There are no cash alternatives and prizes are
non-transferable. We reserve the right to use the winners’ name/work in any
Traplet-produced literature including, but not exclusive to, our website and
marketing materials. Judges decision is final and no correspondence will be
entered into.

Hi Lesley!All our challenges take a technique from the magazine to use as the theme for that month. So far we've had seven challenges that focus on a technique from a 2014 issue of Craft Stamper, so if you want to scroll back through the blog there are seven different techniques there to have a go at, even if you have never actually seen the magazine before!! The info you would need re the technique name/issue/ designer is all included in the blog post for that month! Hope this helps! xxxxxxxx